i am trying to export some open office drawings as png, jpg, or svg's
SVG works but is insufficient for my purposes.
JPG and PNG both cause a "lockup" I've never seen the like of

the screen becomes black, the framebuffer/console "_" cursor appears at the top left but my X cursor remains where it is. It is Imposable to Ctr+Alt+F# to fix or even diagnose the problem._________________Its only not worth doing, if you don't want or need to do it.

I'm assuming that no other function of any other program does this, and that you've compiled LibreOffice rather than use libreoffice-bin. If so, try unmerging libreoffice and emerging libreoffice-bin. Openoffice and libreoffce have always had "fragile" ebuilds and I stopped using the source versions long ago in favor of the much more stable and reliable binary packages. I love compiling stuff on Gentoo, but I'm glad for binary packages in a few cases (Thunderbird and Firefox being the other binaries I use consistently)._________________Gentoo Studio: http://gentoostudio.org
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